On 15 Mar 2006 12:11:23 -0800, in rec.audio.opinion you wrote:

I'm not being snide here - I'm trying to get to the why of why you'd
spend hundreds of dollars more on a somewhat expensive CD player if
you believe what you do about the abilities of CDs.

What do I think I believe Dave and what posts of mine gave you that
conclusion?

This pretty much covers your other questions as well:

"To explain slightly, a CD and decent CD player will give an exact
rendition of the material recorded on that CD".

I can't find this phrase from me or anyone else but you in a google
search. Can you provide a message ID? I don't recall saying this.

Sorry, it looks like it was Dave Plowman who said that. My bad.

You DID seem to support the idea though (as you do below).

The assumption that I take away from this is that you think CD players
are pretty much perfect in terms of representing the CD.

I guess I can agree with that... but if the CD isn't perfect...
perfect recreation of imperfection is kind of silly... don't you think?

Well, that's not something that's fixed by a CD player's
"imperfections", is it (at least for someone who believes that a CD
player should have no bearing on how the CD sounds because the goal is
to simply play back perfectly what's encoded on the disc and that
playback is pretty much fixed by the CD standard)?